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Ten years after winning the PRIDE Open Weight tournament, 42-year-old Mirko Filipovic captured the Rizin FF Grand Prix Open Weight 2016 crown with two first-round knockout victories in one night and three victories in three days overall.

The second round of the 16-man Rizin Open Weight Grand Prix 2016 ended in an upset. MMA legend Mirko Filipovic added another remarkable win to his lengthy resume when he stopped Muhammed Lawal by second-round TKO.

The second half of Rizin Fighting Federation’s debut event went down Thursday at Saitama Super Arena in Saitama, Japan. Fedor Emelianenko and Muhammed “King Mo” Lawal were among the big winners from the event.